Azure Files is one of the new great features released in Azure Storage, allowing you to mount a share in your Storage Account as a mapped drive. This session will cover a few interesting scenarios why you would benefit from using Azure Files: centralizing log files from different machines in a centralized place, lift-and-shift legacy applications, creating a scalable FTP Server, deploy a .NET/Java/NodeJS application to Azure Files and then run it in a Cloud Service, ...

IP address configuration, domain join, computer rename, firewall configuration, network configuration testing, role and feature install, virtual machine creation. There are a large number of everyday tasks that server administrators still do with the GUI out of habit, even though there are faster ways to accomplish the same things in PowerShell. In this session we'll show you a number of single line PowerShell commands that you can use to replace systems administration tasks that you still perform using the GUI because you've been doing it that way since the days of Windows NT.